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(No Modell) I I N. H. LONG. FRUIT JAR PASTENER.

No. 517,410. Patented Mar. 27, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NATHAN H. LONG, OF MUNOIE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DAVID W. STEWART, OF SAME PLACE.

FRUIT-JAR FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,410, dated March 27, 1894.

Application filed March 18, 1893. $erial No. 466,747. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: it past the vertical center of the pivot of the Be it known thatI, NATHAN H. LONG,a citilever H, and the adjacent depending portion 50 zen of the United States, residing at Muncie, of the bail E in contact with the ear G thus in the county of Delaware and State of Indiforming a perfect look, as will be clearly unana, have invented certain new and useful derstood. When thecoveristobe removed the Improvements in Fruit-Jar Fasteners, of lever E, is turned to the position shown in which the following is a specification, refer- Fig. 2 thus throwing upward the outer end of 55 ence being had herein to the accompanying the projection F, and the end of the yoke E, drawings. moving to the outer end of the slot on which My invention relates to an improvement in it is confined it may be lifted a sufficient disjar cover fasteners; and it consists in the tance vertically to relieve the pressureof the novel combination and arrangement of parts yoke on the lid and to pass over the edge of 60 which will be fully described hereinafter, and the lid and to lie down against the side of the more particularly referred to in the claims. jar as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2 to al- The object of myinvention is to provide an low convenient removal of the lid from its improved fastener which will hold the cover seat. When clamped the spring I, acts as a securely in position and which will when untension on the yoke so that the downward 65 clamped allow ample room for the same to be pull upon the top when being clamped is not withdrawn. a dead pull which might at times break the Referring to the accompanying drawingsyoke, but rather a yielding pull, while at the Figure 1 is a perspective view of a jar prosametime there is not sufficient spring to revided with my improved fastener, showing tard a firm clamping of the lid. 70 the position of the same when clamping the In Fig. l coils J, are shown as formed in the cover. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the fastener wire C, which maybe substituted for the ears being unclamped. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail D, and D, if so desired for securing the end views of the fastener device. of the yoke and for supporting the lever E, it

A, designates the jar; B, the covertherefor, will be observed that one prong of the yoke 75 and C, a wire encircling the neck of the jar. that is confined in the slot is longer than the Upon this wire is secured the ear D, to which other.

0 one end of the yoke or clamping wire E, is at- Having thus fully described my invention, tached. Upon the opposite side of the wire what I claim as new, and desire to secure by from the ear D, is the ear D, and pivotally Letters Patent, isconnected thereto is the locking lever E, hav- A jar cover fastening comprising a band, a ing an outwardly projecting portion, F, at bail having one end connected with one side 5 its lower end forming a bell crank lever and of the band, a lever pivoted between its ends a finger hold G, at its upper end, as shown. to the opposite side of the band provided with The projection F, is slotted longitudinally a laterally extending slot below its pivotal 85 which brings said slot at an angle to the main point into which the opposite end of the bail portion of said lever E and confined in this extends, and a laterally projecting stop at the slot is the end of the yoke E. Before enterupper end of the lever against which the bail ing the said slot however the said end is abuts, substantially as described. coiled or twisted, as shown at I, to form a In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein 9o spring. Now when the cover is clamped the presence of two witnesses. lever E, is turned into a vertical position, as

shown in Fig. 1, with the finger hold G rest- NATHAN LQNG' ing against the yoke E, and in this position Witnesses: the end of said yoke is pulled to the upper ANNA LONG, end of the slot in the projection F, throwing FRANK B. LEADBETTER. 

